I think gambling is the best way to spend money. You can gamble for two reasons.
1. If you have a lot of money, go gambling to reduce them.
Why go gambling just to reduce money? Why don't you purchase something and/or give it to the people who need it the most. Like food, clothes, and etc. Or why don't you donate it to the charities, right? Sometimes you don't have to play it along just with a purpose of reducing it. You have to think bigger than this, and I know we are better than with these thoughts.
2. And if you have too little money, go gambling to increase them.
Well, this seems obvious because majority of average gamblers are gambling with a hope of having a profit in return.
So anything can happen in gambling. So should not go gambling with any hope.
Definitely, but I don't think we could gamble without any hope lol
. Everyone are gambling we an ambitions behind. Just like what you stated for example your first example. Such situation has a hope of reducing money though sound ridiculous but it is binded with hope. And we cannot go gamble without it.